Primary battery.



Patented Jan. 11, 1916.

W. E. HOLLAND PRIMARY BATTERY.

APPLICATiONfILED DEC. 8. 1909.

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WALTER E. HOLLAND, OF EAST ORANGE. NEJV JERSEY, .ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS. TO NEW JERSEY PATENT COMPANY, OF WEST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, A

CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

PRIMARY BATTERY.

Application filed December 8,1909.

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Be it known that I, \VAL'rnn E. HOLLAND, a citizen of the l HltOtl SlZHU-S, and a resident of Cast ()range, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented oer tain new and useful Improvements in Primary Batteries. of which the following is a description.

My invention relates to improvements in primary of voltaic batteries of that class in which the negative electrode consists in a plate of oxid of copper or other depolarizing agent. and the positive electrode consists of a plate or plates of Zinc. It should be stated that by positive electrode 1 mean the plate from whiclrcurrent lows through the electrolyte to the other or negative electrode. from which current flows through the outside circuit.the negative electrode, as I term it. thus constituting the positive pole of the battery.

My invention is an improvement on that described in patent to llben (l. Dodge. o. SMART. for primary batteries. patented July 28, HMS. and the object of my invention is'Io so construct the positive plates of batteries of the class described that the latter shall have a higher and more uniform voltage and a higher discharge rate than have. batteries as commonly constructed. without proportionate increase in the amount of material used in the construction of the plate. and shall have increased elliciency and life. My invention consists further in the details of constructum andcombinations of parts hereinafter more particularly described and claimed.

ln the usual construction of batteries of this class as heretofore made. the zinc or positive electrode plate is considerably smaller than the adjacent copper oXid or ncgative electrode plate. which extends below the. zinc plate and beyond it on each side. Such a construction is shown in tho patent to Dodge above. mentioned. ln the electrolytic action of such a cell the zinc plate is rapidly worn awa at the edges because the areas of the negative. plate extend ing beyond the positive plate. having no positive plate area directly opposite from which to draw current, draw it from the most available points. which are the plate edges. lhe current density and consequent dissolution. of the zinc aretherefore much Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 11, 1916.

Serial No. 532.094.

' cally eliminated. In any correctly proportioned cell of this type a certain percentage of zinc, say to 70 per cent, in excess of the amount that will be used in generatiqnlg the rated output of current is provided. .1

full amount of active surface to the end of iis is advisable in order to maintain the the discharge and thus to insure. the elticient working of the cell throughout its life. Increasing the size of the ordinary zinc plate therefore necessitates an almost proportional increase in weight and cost of the zinc.

My invention makes it possible to maintain the full amount of active surface of the positive plate down to the end of discharge with a much smaller percentage of zinc. in excess of the theoretical required amount. or to greatly increase the size of a plate while only slightly increasing its weight. This l do by forming the positive plate or plates with an integral flange or rib upon its surface. or a plurality of such ribs. whereby the body of the plate may be made much thinner than it would otherwise have to be in order to maintain its shape after it has been considerably consumed. I prefer to form the plate. with a flange adjacent to its edges on the side thereof nearest to the adjacent negative plate, and also to provide strengthening ribs across the surface of the plate between the flanges described. My improved plate. the efore. has thickened edges and is provided with one, or more strengthening ribs. A plate so constructed maintains its shape: and the provision of the flanges on the side specified adds somewhat to the amount of active surface. It is however obvious that the flanges and ribs. might be provided upon the side farthest from the adjacent negative plate with nearly as great advantage, and Within the scope of my invention.

Itmay be noted that in a ribbed zine plate constructed as above described and.

designed for the standard type of cell the increase in surface over the old style zinc. plate is tilliper cent.. while the corresponding increase in weight is only 11% per cent.

Referring to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, Fig. 1 illustrates a transverse vertical section through a negative and two positive plates mountedtogether for insertionfin the electrolyte of a cell and embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of aypositive electrode plate embodying my invention. the drawing representing the side thereof which is adapted to be placed toward the. negative plate. Fig. 3 is a cross section on line 33 of I i". Fig. 4 is a section similar to that illustrated in Fig. .1 representing the arrangement of elements in a cell having a plurality of negative plates and a phrrality of positiveplates.

In all of the above drawings the same reference characters will be used to denote corresponding parts.- I

Referring to. the drawings, the positive plates 1, 1, 1 are spaced from the negative plates 2, :2 by means of insulators I), 3, the parts being secured together by means of the bolt 4 which extendsv from the upper ortion of the plates through the insulators. lhe positive plates 1 have ribs or flanges 5 formed on their sides, preferably on those sides nearest tothe negative plates, these ribs or flanges extending adjacent to the lower edge of the plate, and preferably also extending ad acent to the side edges and up- I e per edge of the same side of the plate. Preferably, also, the plate is formed with a ver-.

- upper horizontal flange 8 is interrupted for thereception of the end. of insulator block 3, the flange 8 being continued around the sides and lower edge of the insulator 3 as the two outside. plates.

shown at 9. 9 in .the drawings, the lower negative plates and one on the outer side ofeach of the. negative plates.

struction, the twooutside positive plates are In this conflanged andribbcd only on the inner sides or the sides directed,toward the negative plates 2,whilethe middle positive plate 1 is flanged and ribbed upon both sides, since it. is between two negative platesnegative plate. is also formed thicker than Having now described my invention, what I claiin and desire to protect by Letters latent is as follows:

1. In'a primary battery, a substantially homogeneous zinc electrode plate having its edges thickened to prevent reduction in effective area during the operation of the battery and having strengthening ribs extending from" said thickened edges across said plate integrally therewith, substantially as described.

2. In a primary battery, a flat substantially lio11'1 .'geneoils zinc electrode plate having its edges thickened to prevent reduction in effective area'during the operation of the battery and having a strengthening rib formed upon its surface and extending from a thickened edge portion of said plate integrally therewith. substantially as described.

This specification signed and witnessed this 4th day of December 1009.

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It is hereby certified thet in Letters Patent No. 1,167,499, granted Jenner 11,

1916, upon the application of Walter E. Holland, of East Orange, New Jersey, for

an improvement in Primary Batteries, an error appears in the printed specification requiring oorreotion as foliowsz- Page 1, line 10, for the word of, first occurrence, read or; and that the said Letters Patent, should be read with this correction therein thetthe same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Ofiice.

Signed mid sealed this 25th day of April, A. 1)., 1916.

[SEAL] J. T. NEWTON,

C1; 20449; Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

